Dont have to do this anymore...
After fifteen years of putting away textbooks at the end of the school year, Marolynn finished the last of the after-the-school-year work and turned in her keys today and left Desert Ridge Middle School for the last time in a work capacity. The custodian remarked with amazement that he could see her desk again in her office.

We spent an hour in the afternoon on the phone with an officious Social Security staffer, getting Marolynn's Social Security payments started and trying to get Medicare - part B, to prepare for the health plan we'd get from the school district through the state. He ended the conversation by saying that he'd send some more forms for us to fill out. The secret in getting Social Security benefits is in dealing with the friendlier folks in that organization.